EVIL-DOER, EVIL-DOING
ADJECTIVES
► ILLING evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill → c1220 obs.
► MALEFACT a criminal act; an offense; evil-doing → 1534 obs.
► MALEFACTORY evil-doing → 1871
► MALFEASANT evil-doing → 1809
NOUNS
► BALE-SITHE death, destruction; evil-doing, mischief; evil fortune, calamity → a1000 obs.
► MALEFACTION evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing; a criminal act → 1602
► MALEFACTURE evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing → 1635 obs.
► MALEFICENCE evil-doing → 1598
NOUNS – PERSON
► FEATOUR a transgressor, an evil-doer → 1791 Sc. obs.
► ILL-DOER an evil-doer → 1823 Sc.
► MALEFACTRESS a female felon or criminal; an evil-doer → 1647
► MALFEASANT an evil-doer; a criminal → 1882
► MALFEASOR an evil-doer; a malefactor → c1330 obs.
► MALFETOUR a malefactor; a criminal; an evil-doer → c1450 obs.
► MISDOER an evil-doer, a transgressor → 1792 Sc.